Sorry, different car. This is a 1923. It was Joe Runyan of Pasadena who built it. Pete Eastwood knew the car/builder and confirmed this. Runyan was known for restoring a 1930 V16 dual cowl Cadillac.
I’ve not stopped on my roadster. I just don’t have time to do anything with a 5 year old and working full time. My rolling chassis with all the mods worked out is nearly complete. New bushings, everything rebuilt and completed nut and bolt. It will be a real car when done and not a slapped together jalopy. Here’s the rear axle for instance. Model t rear, spliced to a model a torque tube to bolt to a model a trans in a model t chassis. That wasn’t easy for an idiot to do. But it did get done. I’m
I’ll paint this next and then the frame and start bolting it all together in complete form. This was some work as well. A mish mash of model t and model a again with a model t/a spliced wishbone. No front brakes, 26-27 big drum t rear with rockie mountain brakes actuated with a tab welded to model a brake pedal going through rockie mountain equalizer.
Slow progress but it’s happening. Brush painted with rustoleum implement enamel. Just exactly how they would have in 1930.
I'm already planning a 27T project waiting for my long overdue attention. I just got back from a 2 day run south to San Bernadino to pick up some old machine tool parts and my 85 year old body needed some quiet rest from the 85mph SUVs on I-5 with enough headlight power to light up an entire airport. So I happen on the Go Job thread and a funny sense came over me. Pictures from the time of my birth of old rods parked in front of southern California homes tweaked a strange nerve. Here I had just come away from those massive freeways with a "we gotta get outa dis place" feeling and now all of a sudden I'm flooded with new feelings poking at me as I looked at the pics. I've been a flathead v-8 guy my whole life just don't have time left in my life or resources to start fresh from the bottom up with 4 bangers. If I build a new ride with fairly quiet flathead engine on a 59A block how should I build it to reasonably fit the engine into the 1937-41 time frame? Would a quick change rear end (that I already have) be so out of place in that theme to force me into hiding it under a turtle deck?. I'm serious about this and not a dreamer. With the parts I have to work with I'm probably be better off notching the time frame forward to post WWII and the dry lakes car styles of that period. Any friendly comments will be much appreciated.
I would imagine that immediate post war would have plenty of pre war inspiration, I don't know when Quick Changes kicked off, but I could imagine that someone might shell out for 1 or 2 nice parts, sounds like what you have is a perfect project!
Dah Fish, grab all the parts you have stashed and lay them out in a mockup. Stare at the possibilities and then figure what makes you happy, what needs to go, what needs to be added. Period correct is important, and I won't say that Aqua, Pink and billet works on a 40s style car. If the parts fit a theme and have sat waiting for you to build something to drive down country roads, figure it out. You might end up thinking that selling it all off and buying something done close to what you want is another possibility. At 85, you have put in the time, so you should enjoy the rewards. reading material https://hotrodsofthedrylakesera.blogspot.com/2012/10/august-31-1947-scta-program.html https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/old-hot-rods-photos.1038554/ EDIT: Someone who is traveling the inland empire to grab machine tools is probably more interested in the build, so you might schedule out what you can accomplish and use that to 'budget' what your build can be. There are probably more guys looking to step up from a banger to a flatty, so you might be able to trade too.
Dah fish- I think these two might be close to what you might have in mind. They have post war parts for sure, but have lots of pre war elements.
Might be some repeats from older posts, but here are a few Gow job pictures to keep this thread going
I got a stocker.... it starts runs and drives..... if you know how to start run and drive it....lol..it is from the era when they put tuck beds on them so they could buy gas....
there wasn't a cut off date... GOW refers to the person not the car, and it wasn't just their cars,,,something could be gowed up and not even have a motor.... went something like, did you see what johnny did to his car??? yeah, he got gowed up and cut the fenders off... same with low riders,... one did it and it was cool, so many followed.... now they're called tweakers....
If I get gowed up some day, I might cut up my low mile ' running driving all OG 1923 ford roadster but for now it's yard art at my built in 1920 utah home...
I'm sure everyone here knows this, and looking at the road side car pics with the exhaust on the side of the car instead of the under side.... in 1923 it was illegal to exit a car on the road side,... thats why ford didn't put doors on the dr. side of a lot of cars... my 23 only has a pasenger door and the e brake shifter is right where the door would be...
Love this thread so much cool history, Thanks to all for posting, I'm working on some history of my own.
Keeping this thread alive. I did kinda finish the roadster last fall it yard drives but have brake issues. I started building another one out of spare parts
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